The Rest on the Flight into Egypt
manner of Jacopo Bassano (Bassano c.1510 – Venice 1592)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1500 - 1599
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
724 x 978 mm (28 1/2 x 38 1/2 in)
Order this imageCollection
Tatton Park, Cheshire
NT 1298259
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, The Rest on the Flight into Egypt, in the manner of Jacopo Bassano il vecchio (Bassano 1510 – Venice 1592), 16th century. The Madonna and Child are seated at the left in a landscape. Saint Joseph, at the right, looks up at an angel in the sky - an unusual piece of iconography for the Rest on the Flight as the angel appeared in a dream to Joseph prior to the flight as a warning against Herod. Depicts a scene in a landscape with an angel appearing to St Joseph.
Provenance
Bequeathed by Maurice Egerton, 4th Baron Egerton of Tatton (1874 - 1958) to the National Trust with the house, gardens and contents of Tatton Park
Credit line
Tatton Park, The Egerton Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
97 / Riposo (painted in black at base of frame)
Makers and roles
manner of Jacopo Bassano (Bassano c.1510 – Venice 1592), artist